T Quotes
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“There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot.”
“There is no such thing as a placebo erection.”
“There is no such thing as a plain fact of murder. Murder springs, nine times out of ten, out of the character and circumstances of the murdered person. Because the victim was the kind of person he or she was, therefore was he or she murdered! Until we can understand fully and completely exactly what kind of a person [she] was, we shall not be able to see clearly exactly the kind of person who murdered her. From that spring the necessity of our questions.”
Source: Evil Under the Sun
“There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.”
“There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.”
“There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners'.”
Source: Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems
“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.”
“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.”
“There is no such thing as a publishable first draft.”
Source: Indecent pleasures: the life and colorful times of William Targ
“There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.”
Source: Conversations with Carl [Gustav] Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones
“There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.”
“There is no such thing as a really rich victim.”
“There is no such thing as a relationship without a contract. All relationships are governed by contracts, be they implied or explicit. Relationship contracts are not legal contracts, though sometimes societal expectations of relationships get worked into law (this can come into play in situations like divorce as well as the legal establishment and relinquishment of paternity).
The society in which you grew up provided you with a set of template contracts to which you implicitly agree whenever you enter a relationship, even a non-sexual one. For example, a common clause of many societal template contracts among friends involves agreeing to not sleep with a friend's recent ex. While you may never explicitly agree to not sleep with a friend's ex, your friend will absolutely feel violated if they discover that you shacked up with the person who dumped them just a week earlier.
Essentially, these social contracts tell an individual when they have “permission” to have specific emotional reactions. While this may not seem that impactful, these default standards can have a significant impact on one’s life. For example, in the above reaction, a friend who just got angry out of the blue at a member of their social group would be ostracized by others within the group while a friend who became angry while citing the “they slept with my ex” contract violation may receive social support from the friend group and internally feel more justified in their retaliatory action. To ferret out the contractual aspects of relationships in which you currently participate, think through something a member of that relationship might do that would have you feeling justifiably violated, even though they never explicitly agreed to never take such action.
This societal system of template contracts may have worked in a culturally and technologically homogenous world without frequent travel, but within the modern world, assumed template contracts cause copious problems.”
Source: The Pragmatist's Guide to Relationships
“There is no such thing as a reluctant star.”
“There is no such thing as a secret among our leaders; communication is very open and honest, and if it's not, then it can become seemingly brutal. You've heard my arguments for love, friends, and authenticity, but there are the deceivers, the manipulators, the control freaks, and the self-appointed teachers in the Body who would love to use our system for their own selfish purposes. We all know the realities of the old sin nature.”
“There is no such thing as a secret mind or secret me apart from the Lord.”
“There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.”
“There is no such thing as a self made spiritual leader. He is able to influence others spiritually only because the Spirit is able to work in and through him to a greater degree than in those he leads.”
“There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.”
“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”
Source: The Miracle of Motivation
“There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion
or an inconsequential act of service.
Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences.”
Source: Invisible Acts of Power: The Divine Energy of a Giving Heart
“There is no such thing as a small voice when the world is aching to be heard. Speak with care, but speak.”
“There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.”
“There is no such thing as a special biblical hermeneutics. But we have to learn that hermeneutics which is alone and generally valid by means of the Bible as the witness of revelation. We therefore arrive at the suggested rule, not from a general anthropology, but from the Bible, and obviously, as the rule which is alone and generally valid, we must apply it first to the Bible.
The fact that we have to understand and expound the Bible as a human word can now be explained rather more exactly in this way: that we have to listen to what it says to us as a human word. We have to understand it as a human word in the light of what it says.
Under the caption of a truly "historical" understanding of the Bible we cannot allow ourselves to commend an understanding which does not correspond to the rule suggested: a hearing in which attention is paid to the biblical expressions but not to what the words signify, in which what is said is not heard or overheard; an understanding of the biblical words from their immanent linguistic and factual context, instead of from what they say and what we hear them say in this context; an exposition of the biblical words which in the last resort consists only in an exposition of the biblical men in their historical reality. To this we must say that it is not an honest and unreserved understanding of the biblical word as a human word, and it is not therefore an historical understanding of the Bible. In an understanding of this kind the Bible cannot be witness. In this type of understanding, in which it is taken so little seriously, indeed not at all, as a human word, the possibility of its being witness is taken away from the very outset. The philosophy which lies behind this kind of understanding and would force us to accept it as the only true historical understanding is not of course a very profound or respectable one. But even if we value it more highly, or highest of all, and are therefore disposed to place great confidence in its dictates, knowing what is involved in the understanding of the Bible, we can only describe this kind of understanding of the reality of a human word as one which cannot possibly do justice to its object. Necessarily, therefore, we have to reject most decisively the intention of even the most profound and respectable philosophy to subject any human word and especially the biblical word to this understanding. The Bible cannot be read unbiblically. And in this case that means that it cannot be read with such a disregard for its character even as a human word. It cannot be read so unhistorically.
§19.1, pp. 466-467)”
Source: Church Dogmatics 1.2: The Doctrine of the Word of God
“There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one another as the fruit is related to the tree that has borne it.”
“There is no such thing as a sphere for sex. Every man has a different sphere, in which he may or may not shine, and it is the same with every woman, and the same woman may have a different sphere at different times.”
Source: HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 1 (Illustrated): The Origin of the Movement - Lives and Battles of Pioneer Suffragists (Including Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)
“There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.”
“There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world.”
“There is no such thing as a stress-free life. No evidence has ever been presented which suggests that a stress-free life can ever be achieved. Stress can be managed, relieved and lessened, but never eliminated.”
“There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.”
“There is no such thing as a successful defense.”
“There is no such thing as a superman in politics, but there are super-tricksters who wear the superman suit and only their supporters see them flying!”
“There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.”
“There is no such thing as a true account of anything.”
Source: Creation: a novel
“There is no such thing as a true madman.”
Source: On Resistism
“There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.”
Source: The Mists of Avalon
“There is no such thing as a typical season, not for the Cardinals, not for San Diego, not for Minnesota.”
“There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.”
“There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority is, in practice, to stigmatize them. Nuns are rarely classed as deviants for the same reason, although if they obey their vows they clearly differ very significantly from the great majority of people.”
Source: The Homosexualization of America
“There is no such thing as a villain. It's the others who are wrong. In as much, all villains are the same.”
“There is no such thing as a weakness, only blindspots. No such thing as failure, they are just detours and scenic routes to remember your success”
“There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.”
“There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.”
Source: Another Roadside Attraction
“There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work.”
Source: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
“There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.”
“There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.”
“There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along.”
“There is no such thing as a wrong note.”
“There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour; it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most which he can for his exertions; some can get little or nothing, because they have not sufficient strength, knowledge or ingenuity; others get much, because they have, comparatively speaking, a monopoly of certain powers.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. You may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or actual living room only if I permit you to so do.”